NIST Privacy ยท Advisory Service Components

For organizations that need to operationalize privacy controls within complex environments

Writing a policy is easy. Enforcing it across a Kubernetes cluster processing terabytes of data is hard. We bridge the gap between legal requirements and engineering reality. We identify, govern, control, communicate, and protect your data privacy posture by building the artifacts that prove you are doing what you say you are doing.

  • Privacy Engineering Gap Assessment For organizations evaluating their privacy posture. This is not a legal review; it is a technical diagnostic. We assess your current architecture against the NIST Privacy Framework Core (Identify, Govern, Control, Communicate, Protect). We identify the "privacy technical debt" in your system, where your data collection outpaces your consent mechanisms and where your storage lacks minimization controls. You get a comprehensive remediation roadmap, not just a list of findings.
  • Phase 0: Telemetry Discovery For organizations committed to the full build. We bypass the standalone report and move straight to architectural definition. We deploy discovery tools to map your actual data lineage, ingest pipelines, and storage schemas. We produce the foundational artifacts (Data Inventory Map, Control Ownership Matrix, Schema Registry) and immediately start engineering the solution.
  • Advisory - Privacy Architecture Build The heavy lift. We develop the full suite of NIST Privacy Framework artifacts, but with an engineering focus. System of Records Notices (SORNs) that match database reality. Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs) that analyze API specifications. Data retention schedules that map to CRON jobs. We document the system as it runs, embedding with your team to solve implementation challenges.
  • Validation & Stress Testing We test the controls. We simulate data subject requests (DSARs) to see if your system breaks. We attempt to re-identify "anonymized" data. We validate that your encryption keys are managed correctly and that your access logs are tamper-evident.

Every artifact is derived from system reality. We do not copy-paste privacy promises. We document the actual constraints, flows, and safeguards of your environment. This is documentation that your Data Protection Officer can trust and your Site Reliability Engineers can respect.

Includes:

  • Data Lineage & Telemetry Audit
  • Phase 0 (Schema Discovery)
  • Privacy Impact Assessments (PIA)
  • System of Records Notices (SORN)
  • Data Inventory & Mapping
  • Consent Management Architecture
  • Third-Party Data Flow Analysis